And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
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Gill's Exposition
And God spake on this wise,.... The Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, "and God spake to him", and so does one of Beza's copies; and the Ethiopic version reads it both ways, God "said thus to…
Barnes' Notes
And God spake on this wise - In this manner, Gen 15:13-14. His seed - His posterity; his descendants. Should sojourn - This means that they would have a “temporary residence there.” The word is used…
Adam Clarke
That his seed should sojourn in a strange land - See Gen 15:13, Gen 15:14.
Four hundred years - Moses says, Exo 12:40, that the sojourning of the children of Israel in Egypt - was 430 years. See the…
Stephen is now at the bar before the great council of the nation, indicted for blasphemy: what the witnesses swore against him we had an account of in the foregoing chapter, that he spoke blasphemous…
Cambridge Bible
And God spake on this wise The words are substantially those which we find in Gen 15:13-14.
four hundred years This number agrees with the number stated in Genesis; but in Exo 12:40, and also by St…
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